Improved spool-reservoir or case



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J. PATTON THOMPSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.v

Letters Patent No. 89,519, cated Apre 27,1869.

IMPROVED SPOOL-RESBRVOIR OR CASE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

Io all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J. PATTON THOMPSON, ofPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented a Spool-Reservoir; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the same.

My improved spool-reservoir consists of a number of graduatedreceptacles, a back plate, front plate, or its equivalent, and bottomboard, the whole being arranged for the storage and ready withdrawal ofspools, substantially as described hereafter.

In order to enable others skilled in the a'rt to make and use myinvention, I will nowA proceed to describe its -width corresponding withthe diameter of the spools which they have to receive. Thus the rstreceptacle,

1, is wide enough to receive a spool of large diameter, .while the lastreceptacle, 10, is just wide enough to receive a spool of the smallestdiameter.

The front of these receptacles consists of a plate, B, of glass, fittedto the standards A and A', and the' rear consists of a board, C, securedto the same standards, and inclined as shown in iig. 2, so that thereceptacles from 1 to 10 may be reduced in length to correspond withthat of the spools which they have to receive.

The partitions b b, above referred to, are secured to the board AO, andextend to the glass front.

A cover, E, is hinged to the upper edge of the back board C at e, andhas in front a flange, f, overlapping the glass, which is protected atits 'lower edge by a Slat, h, secured to the standards.

The under edge of this slat is so far from the bottom board, d, that thelargest spool can be pushed out from between them, the lower edge of theboard G being also lso far from the said bottom board that a finger canbe introduced between them, so as to push out a spool.

After opening the lid, or cover E, the spools are arranged .in theseveral receptacles according to size of spool and quality of thethread, and this is shown by numbers on the glass, as seen in iig. 1,these numbers indicating the quality of the thread. p

The apparatus may be placed on the counter of a store, where it willpresent an ornamental appearance.

A purchaser of spools can at once select from the mass exposed to view,and the attendant immediately pushes out from the back the lowest spoolof the character selected, the spools above at'once falling, and thelowest one of the tier taking its` place on the board d, ready to bepushed out when it is required.

witnesses.

J. PATTON THOMPSON.

Witnesses: r

JOHN WHITE, LOUIS BoswELL.

